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Senior Market Analyst: Battery Materials and Technologies
MM, MEng, BEng, SAIMM

Rj works in these teams
  • Platinum Group Metals
  • Battery Metals and Materials
  • Sustainability and ESG
  • Optimisation and Performance
  • The Energy Transition
  • Renewable Energy
  • Responsible Sourcing
  • PGM Recycling
  • Macroeconomics and Investment
  • The Lithium Market
  • Nickel and Cobalt Supply
  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling
  • Critical Minerals Research
  • Rare Earths and Minor Metals
  • Value Chain Analytics
Expertise and career highlights

Rj is the latest addition to SFA (Oxford)’s battery team, having recently completed his Master’s in Management in Finance and Investment from Wits Business School.

He is a seasoned mining industry consultant, providing valuable insights and actionable strategies. Rj is a specialist in advanced techno-economic modelling, business case development, and reporting techniques, strengthening SFA's battery materials consultancy, market intelligence, and expertise.

Having functioned previously as a Metallurgy Superintendent, he was responsible for ongoing process monitoring, problem-solving, process optimisation, cost management, and spearheading innovation initiatives across five electric furnaces and their associated utility systems.

Rj has a depth of knowledge in key commodities, specialising in cobalt, copper, gold, lead, manganese, natural gas, nickel, PGMs, potash, silver & zinc.

Rj holds a Master of Engineering in Extractive Metallurgy from Stellenbosch University and a Master of Management in Finance and Investment at Wits Business School. He is also a member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM).

Rj works in these teams
  • Platinum Group Metals
  • Battery Metals and Materials
  • Sustainability and ESG
  • Optimisation and Performance
  • The Energy Transition
  • Renewable Energy
  • Responsible Sourcing
  • PGM Recycling
  • Macroeconomics and Investment
  • The Lithium Market
  • Nickel and Cobalt Supply
  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling
  • Critical Minerals Research
  • Rare Earths and Minor Metals
  • Value Chain Analytics

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